LMAO, Dr. G!! I'd actually never thought to diagnose the "old man" although I have been fascinated by the morbid nature of the song since I was young. It's right up there with Rockabye Baby. Even at the age of three, I knew these songs were odd...but also somewhat amusing. (No wonder I ended up in emergency...morbid humor is the only thing keeping us sane.)

::giggle:: I can remember thinking as a kid that he suffered a brain injury whenever I heard/sang that. Come to think of it, I was also the only one in my class who knew the origin of "Ring Around the Rosy".

Many (many) years ago when I had a functional body & used to play with live audio (as in rock'n'roll 'n' stuff) some colleagues & I were sitting around watching TV and one of those Solid Gold style shows came on [hey, I said it was long ago]

and everyone started bitching out the technical side -- the lighting people starting picking on the colors and the layout and the sound guys all started yelling about fake microphones and the obvious proof (duh!) that it was a recording ("Hear that saxophone? Do you SEE a saxophone there?!")

Welcome to my whining!

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